03740nam 2200757 a 450 991082772700332120240418044435.01-280-49069-197866135859290-8139-2897-4(CKB)2550000000047934(OCoLC)755618966(CaPaEBR)ebrary10495568(SSID)ssj0000566625(PQKBManifestationID)11389879(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000566625(PQKBWorkID)10552436(PQKB)11766832(MiAaPQ)EBC3443939(MdBmJHUP)muse3988(Au-PeEL)EBL3443939(CaPaEBR)ebr10495568(CaONFJC)MIL358592(EXLCZ)99255000000004793420090814d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrReading for the law British literary history and gender advocacy /Christine L. Krueger1st ed.Charlottesville University of Virginia Press20101 online resource (320 p.) Victorian literature and culture seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8139-2893-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history -- Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch -- Witchcraft precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale -- The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism -- Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman -- Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports -- Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault -- Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon -- Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers -- The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.The saliency of the nineteenth-century British literary culture stems in part from its place in a politico-legal tradition that produces the very conditions of narrative legal theorists' aspirations for meaningful social transformation in modern, multicultural democracies.Victorian literature and culture series.English literatureHistory and criticismLegal stories, EnglishHistory and criticismLaw and literatureGreat BritainHistoryLaw in literatureFemale offenders in literatureWomenLegal status, laws, etcGreat BritainHistorySex discrimination against womenLaw and legislationGreat BritainHistoryFeminist jurisprudenceGreat BritainEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Legal stories, EnglishHistory and criticism.Law and literatureHistory.Law in literature.Female offenders in literature.WomenLegal status, laws, etc.History.Sex discrimination against womenLaw and legislationHistory.Feminist jurisprudence823.009/3554Krueger Christine L1602425MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827727003321Reading for the law3926406UNINA